Warehouse Specialist-2nd Shift

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for accurate receiving, storing, picking, cutting, packaging and shipping of product to meet the company’s 1 + 3 Operational Perfection @ Southwire (OPS) metrics in the areas of safety, quality, service/velocity and waste/cost reduction.
• Responsible for the safe and efficient operation of a forklift or other powered material handling equipment (MHE).
• Responsible for filling customer orders and delivering them to the correct staging area.
• Responsible for the completeness and correctness of all orders filled.
• Ensure that the quantity, quality, packaging, labeling and addressing of outbound orders corresponds to customer specifications or other requirements.

• Count all products, compare to packing list(s) and check all shipments for damage.
• Report shortages, damages and mis-shipments on appropriate forms.
• Sign for inbound shipments when necessary.
• Unload inbound shipments safely and move product to the proper storage locations.
• Efficiently and safely stack and store product in appropriate areas.

• Efficiently pick customer orders for shipment, ensuring that the correct number and type of product is picked.
• Assemble orders for shipment as necessary.
• Carry or transport orders to correct shipping locations.
• Stencil, tag, label or mark orders as required.
• Responsible for lifting multiple spools of electrical wire consistently throughout a 12-hour shift.
• Compare quantity, labeling and address with customer’s order to ensure outgoing shipments are complete and correct.
• Accept signature for outbound shipments as necessary.
• Efficiently move product into trailers or containers.

• Responsible for loading unloading empty wooden reels and reels of electrical wire consistently throughout a 8-hour shift.
• Responsibility for the payoff and take up of the rewinding process of cutting/paralleling of wire to customer specifications.
• Responsible for stringing wire from the payoff through the counter to the take-up.
• This includes proper packaging, marking, and tagging to the customer specifications.

• Ensure inbound and outbound shipments are accurate and free of damage.
• Follow company quality guidelines.
• Report quality variances.
• Use the company’s ISO Quality System documentation to help guide all daily quality activities.

• Maintain equipment in a neat, clean and orderly fashion.
• On a daily basis, inspect and perform minor maintenance on assigned equipment.
• Operate all equipment in a safe and efficient manner following prescribed work methods.
• Comply with OSHA and company standards.
• Keep appropriate records and reports to guarantee that tight inventory control and security are maintained.
• Assist in physical inventories and cycle counts.
• Make key inventory adjustments on a computer.

• Repack or re-box cases per customer instructions.
• Repair and recoup damaged goods as required.
• Charge forklift battery as needed; repair pallets when necessary; clean trailers and truck bays as requested.
• Perform labeling, sorting, wrapping, packing, and repacking as needed.

• Coordinate as necessary with all functional areas within the service center, especially Customer Service, Transportation and Maintenance.

• Follow all company environmental rules/procedures and handle all materials in a manner designed to minimize environmental impact.
• Follow prescribed safety rules/procedures so as to prevent injury to self and others and to maintain safe equipment and conditions in entire area of responsibility.
• Seek the assistance and advice of safety representatives on matters concerning safe practices, policies and/or procedures and give personal support to all safety activities and procedures
• Maintain a clean, neat and orderly work area.
• Assist in maintaining security of the warehouse.
• Report issues and problems to Management.

• Normal warehouse working conditions, 8-hour shifts.
• Must be capable of standing and walking for extended periods.
• Must be able to twist, stoop, squat, reach above shoulder level and crouch on a frequent basis.
• Must be able to use proper techniques to lift 50-75 pounds.
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